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I have never received a Chrsitmas gift or a birthday gift for that matter. I have never neglected the opportunity to give them though as in the giving comes the greatest of gifts. A smile or hug or if you are graced by completeness in the giving a tear through smiling eyes that comes from the heart. These silvered tokens are all the gift I could ever have wanted and have blessed me far beyond any material thing wrapped in paper.
Oh and last year I received a dozen Chrsitmas cards for the first time in my life as well. All from the generous hearts here on CS. Virtual or not they touched me in ways I could never in a million lifetimes express. Thank you my friends.

You have such a beautiful heart, Mark, for one who has been so neglected and abused. I don't get a lot at this time of year, but I don't need a lot, either. Love and friends are enough for me. I have those here. I have friends in my local area too, but tonight I'm rather isolated from them. I won't have a phone for two more days, so for the first time I can't talk to my family. It feels lonelier than normal.

I have received an unexpected gift from my parents. I was told there's one in the box for me as well as the ones for the boys, but I'm not opening that box until I have them Sunday. We'll open together then.

Right now, my best gifts are my friends here, and I'm staying on here to keep the others like myself company. We're not so alone if we stick together, right?

well, dru i would have to say this year its not material, best christmas gift i have recieved is that my daughter and youngest grandson were not killed in the car wreck they were in last week, even though it broke both of cameron's legs, they are here with us!!!

You are so right about that Sweetheart.

Yes that is a real blessing and miracle

That is a beautiful gift! Notice, my first one isn't material either.

right!!!!

yes, i saw dru!! hows the frosting coming???

Another wonderful gift is having Rich in my life, too. I really need to let him know that whenever he finally gets online tonight. If he gets online tonight. If not, I certainly understand. It's the holidays. I'm just missing him right now.

I have cookies baked by younger son's girlfriend, so I haven't been digging into the icing yet.

You have a very special impressive heart despite all you have been thru, there are a few others that I am very impressed with their hearts being as your's despite all the pain they have gone thru, I am sure there are others' and they too are way up there. But you , Shelly, Dru and Starlin I really look up too. And are most likely all miracles to even be here today. I am proud to know all of you.

I don't blame you and I am sure if he can he will get on to here to talk to you then.

I know he will if he can. It's tough...but we have the rest of the time, right? I'll survive it! Heck...I've survived much worse than a little loneliness.

And thank you for your kind words above this...there are many I look up to as well. Many of us here have survived much. You're one I look up to as well, Lela. A fellow survivor who has made it past the pain to live, hope, and love again.

You're pretty awesome too, sweetie.

A Craftsmen tool set back when I was in high school. Go figure.

Lela we are all miracles. The adversity faced in every single day of life is enough to take any of us out at any point. Living is often best experienced on the edge, as the exhilaration is a testimony to success itself.
My spirit is heavy this time of year at the best of times and this year it is exponentially expounded. I have no word of my children, my mother is gone and my Love is burdened with pressures of an astronomical proportion than have kept her from me for now.
My only solace this year is in the good spirit of those here who have a fair share of some sort of blessing.
I can't help but feel depressed of sorts but I am sure it will turn around it always does. My life has been a sequence of losses but there is always the glimmer of Hope on the horizon to pick me up and carry my legs forward to greet the dawn of each new day.
The bottom is the best vantage for looking up after all.

God Bless, and Merry Christmas to all.

I am going to revel in memories now as there is nothing in my life that can tarnish them or take even a single one of them from me.

So...a good start for your current tool collection. I'll bet you still have them since they're Craftsman!

Thankyou so very much sweetie, we have all come a long ways and are survivors.

Almost forgot the point of my last post... along with my own memories of my life and the little things that have made it endurable I will also take the memories of those to whom I have grown accustomed and eager to share in their lives here on CS.
This community is one that has lifted my spirit in times where the weight of the world pressed down far heavier than I could have believed possible.
My memories are much fuller and glow brighter because of you guys. Thanx.

Sorry, Mark...my mind traveled elsewhere with that one!

Anyway, like me, you have a gift of a wonderful person in your life this season, even if they can't be with us right now. Hold onto that thought, Mark. You'll be together shortly, making your new and brighter future.

And yes, all lives are a miracle in themselves. Life itself is a gift.